The Punctuation Guide

I like how the guide has an app-like feel. The navigation, rollovers, and layout would work really well for a non-linear e-learning course.

The only thing missing is a practice component. I wish there were some activities for users to test and practice punctuation skills. Thankfully, our community is always on the lookout for e-learning challenge ideas. And that’s what this week’s challenge is all about!

Challenge of the Week

This week your challenge is to design a learning interaction that teaches one or more concepts around punctuation.

Last Week’s Challenge:

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The weekly challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

I really liked the graphics and the story line, but the instruction really confused me. Perhaps showing the rule first and then the examples would have helped me learn better. And make the instructions more conspicuous - maybe at the top of the page rather than the bottom.

Thanks, everyone. I wanted something that looked simple and had been working on these characters in After Effects. I have more characters I am working on but thought this fit. They were designed, rigged, animated, and rendered with a white background in AE and then the text and other elements are faded in over the animation in Storyline.

Thanks again, everyone. The characters are a lot of fun to create. Trying to build some new templates with them. If any of you ever create any, look up the wiggle expression. Adds a slight bit of random movement which adds a lot to the character.

This is indeed a very simple interaction. Not a whole lot of bells and whistles, but a very straight forward quiz type set up.
https://googledrive.com/host/0Bxawj2MldS61fjhVTndoUXA3UGlQeHEtZnNvSFNhYnFUQVNDbEhfaGdlcmdLdWtidHhIWk0

Instead of punctuation and grammar, I chose commonly misused words. Some of these are my personal pet peeves that you will recognize, but others were a surprise to me.
When you take the test, please post your score below. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/70407176/words/story.html

The problem with that database is that there aren't many poses for a lot of characters and that most of the poses are unusable. 7/15 is pretty good considering this isn't your first language. I know a few native speakers who scored 8.

There are a lot of characters, but most of them have only a few poses and most of the poses I could never use, (for example dance moves, or someone holding an empty picture frame). It was fine for this project, where I only needed a happy or sad pose, but I probably could not use a character for a whole presentation. There wouldn't be enough good options.

After doing some additional research, the Juicer workbench needed to access content and the fact that I can't even see their library without a membership are deal breakers for me. Too bad... it had a lot of potential.

Hi Linda, this is amazing work as you always do! I scored 11 out of 15, but for the sake of test design it should have been 13 out of 15 LOL
I share your obsession with the proper use of words. For example, in Fewer vs. Less it can be argued that because of the inclusion of a limit figurei.e. ten items, "less" would be acceptable.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/less
There are others but, that's a separate thread ; )

There's no shame in 11 out of 15 Alexander. The Oxford dictionary agrees with my definition http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/less-or-fewer Different sources give different rules, and some of the rules change over time. For example, the word terrific used to mean causing terror. The point is that most people who believe that they are using correct English, may be surprised to learn that what they thought was right, isn't.

Regardless vs irregardless is my biggest peeve. I once listened to a minister use irregardless at least 20 times during a sermon. It was so annoying. And now I can't remember my score after reading all the comments, but I think it was 9/15.
Also, if anyone wants a nice library with lots of poses, I use elearningart.com.

Wow Simon, that's the highest score I've heard (so far). You do indeed speak goodly : ) I thought about the red being associated with a wrong answer, but I just really like the way red pops next to black & gray.

OK, my first challenge, and my first complete Articulate piece:
https://googledrive.com/host/0BziOV-5cd2_SfnNHQVlPWjZ0UDVXTEFGMksyQVV1dDJLUm5NcWZDTFBtbURSd3BUSWJURDg
It's very short, and I know it's a tad glitchey, but I was learning how to set up triggers and get the timeline to all work smoothly, so I'll see if you notice the flaws.

Welcome to the E-Learning Heroes, Carl!
I really enjoyed your zombie concept. What's neat about it is that it would be easy to replicate for dozens of other words.
And Linda's correct about sharing in the zombie challenge. That was a really fun challenge and your example would fit perfectly:-)

Thanks, Jeff. I really prefer things to be as simple as possible, in life, and in the use of my designs.
Someday I will pester you with questions about the Netherlands (my mom's side of the family were Egmonds), and I'll try not to gush about how much I love your homeland.

Thanks, Andrew!
I have dabbled with Adobe Director and video editing in the past, which likely had some influence on my design.
Ashi & Amanda - Sorry for the scare, but zombies are just incorrigible! ;)

Here's my entry:
http://tinyurl.com/Chal75
Before I started working on the challenge, I decided to google "punctuation games", and found this, and decided to try to re-create it in Storyline.
http://www.funenglishgames.com/grammargames/punctuation.html
I think it turned out nicely.

You're right. I wanted to make the buttons bigger, but by the time I realized they needed to be bigger, It was deep into development. I also should have been clearer on the instructions. Something like "click punctuation then press fire".

first time to join a challenge here. Here's my submission.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33387236/site/letmakehaveget/story.html
Doesn't have any fancy graphics or animations. just played with text and colors and made a customized fill in the blanks page.

Linda, I ran into the hover-hand issue with mine. I dredged the discussion boards for a quick fix, and couldn't find one for my situation. I even tried putting a hidden hotspot over or under all the options, so the hand remained on, but that just messed up my text states. Do you know a fool-proof way to get the hand to not give away answers?

True! But I was avoiding hotspots since they were spoiling my text states, and I couldn't find an uncheck option when you assign a trigger to an item without a hotspot:
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/change-mouse-to-hand-cursor-when-mouse-hovered-over-hotspot
(in particular, the problem encountered by Dianne Gibson was the same as mine)

Megan - I always like you're entries. They are very nicely designed. I'm jealous of your skills! I, too, got stuck on the first mistake even with the hint. I think the rule you're trying to apply is a controversial one - some people would place a comma after tomato and some wouldn't feel it necessary. At any rate, I used both options and still received an incorrect message.

Beautiful design! So elegant and fun; I envy you your wonderful design skills, Megan. But as someone who subscribes to the serial (or Oxford or Harvard) comma, I was surprised to have my answer marked wrong because of it. I don't think it's ever wrong to use it, and in many cases, it's essential for clarity. I edited a literary magazine for three years, and our staff found it really was important to use it consistently. Here are some amusing examples of why: http://www.buzzfeed.com/adamdavis/the-oxford-comma-is-extremely-important-and-everyone-should#.cdoB3o3MJ

Hi guys I'm currently attending the Learning Solutions Conference 2015 (LSCON15) and didn't have much time for this one. However, I didn't want to miss this challenge.
http://bit.ly/1BNlfUL
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Very stylish! The visuals are sleek and super. I posted a comment on Megan's thread about the importance of the serial/Oxford/Harvard comma. I didn't receive feedback as to why I got your comma challenge wrong, but I'm guessing it must have been my use of the serial comma, which is actually correct (and a good idea for the reasons I mention in my other post).